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Chapter 4- Memories remembered then forgotten

Heokin led Kagome back to the circular room and told her to sit in one of the chairs to wait for him. "O-k," she replied and sat down. "I'll be right back, I just have to collect some things for the... well, the concoction, I guess you could call it." he smiled. Heokin leapt out through the waterfall, he met up with one of his animal friends and told him to keep watch, "Make sure no one enters, and no one leaves," The animal nodded its head in response, well, as close to a nod as it could muster. Heokin raced through the forest in search of the herbs necessary. 'All right first, this one,' he thought to himself and picked up a few reddish type plants.

Inuyasha and the others were heading back to their campsite, wanting rest so they could have an all day search tomorrow. Shippo yawned and curled up on Sango's shoulder. Sango was riding on Kirara, and Miroku and Inuyasha were walking a little bit behind them. "What are you thinking, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked him, noticing he was rather quiet. "Nothing monk! Why are you being so nosy?!" Inuyasha spat back. "It seems someone is restless about the fact that Kagome is captured," Miroku teased. "I don't care about that stupid wench! She's only good for the jewel shards ya know!" "That's not what I think," Miroku said. "Well what do you think then?" Inuyasha questioned, wanting to know the answer to the confusion going on inside his head himself. "Well, I think that you think that it's your fault that Kagome is captured by Heokin, that you think that if you hadn't of gone to Kikyou, then none of this would've happened. And you're afraid that what Heokin said was true, and that Kagome might just be happy there and won't want to come back," Miroku smiled at the brilliance of his words. Inuyasha, how ever was not pleased, and pounded him down to the ground. "Learn when to shut your mouth monk!" Inuyasha yelled, and continued after Sango. "I'm just trying to be helpful!" Miroku replied, while lying on the ground clutching his head from where Inuyasha pummelled him, "Hey! Wait for me my love!" Inuyasha turned around and cocked and eyebrow at him, "Sorry monk, but just because no girls like you, it doesn't mean that all the guys do," "But... I meant," Miroku stammered. "Do I have to spell it out for you. I don't swing that way." Inuyasha said, stressing on his last 5 words. "I was talking to Sango you idiot!" Miroku yelled at him. "Care to repeat that?" Inuyasha threatened, appearing in front of him. Before Inuyasha could beat him again, he sensed something, more like a vibe, then anything else. Sango stopped, since no one was following her anymore, "Come on guys, we need some rest before we continue our search." "Right," said Miroku, running to catch up, "Come on Inuyasha," Inuyasha nodded then looked back to where they came from, 'I'll find you Kagome,'

Heokin came back with the first item on his list. "Thank you," he said to his friend, and relieved him of his duty. He jumped through the waterfall and made his way into the circular room. He came in to see Kagome asleep on the chair he asked her to wait in. He grabbed a blanket from a near by storage room, and covered her with it. As he was about to walk away, when he heard her voice, "Inuyasha..." Heokin frowned, 'Don't worry about it, she's only dreaming,' he said to himself, 'But how can she still be thinking about him? Ah well, all of this will be taken care of tomorrow.'

`*~~~Next day~~~*`

"Alright Kagome, I only have a few more things to collect, so feel free to explore, it might take a couple hours though, so don't get worried," Heokin informed her, and made his way to the entrance of his home. "See you later, Heokin," Kagome smiled, and waved him off. Kagome decided on going down the passage that had a cheery glow to it, unbeknownst to her, that I would reveal to her the thing that she wants to see most. Making her way down she came to a door and pushed it open. "This place looks familiar," she spoke to herself, and found herself in an open field. "What's that?" she looked to her side and saw a flash of silver. Curious she decided to follow. "Kagome? Is that you?" It appeared to be Sango, running towards her, arms wide open for a hug. Another person came towards her; arms spread wide as well, "Kagome!" It was Miroku this time, Kagome took a step to the side and stuck her foot out, "OOF!" Miroku fell to the ground, "Can't I ever win?" "I'm just joking Miroku," she said and offered him a hand. "Thank you Lady Kagome," Miroku smiled. "Kagome!!!!" Shippo jumped into her arms, smiling widely. "Shippo! I've missed you so much!" Kagome laughed, "Well, if all of you are here, then where's..." she was cut off there, because they all disappeared, "What the..." She closed her eyes, afraid of the darkness. She peeked one open and saw that she was in a new place, right beside a riverbed. She opened both her eyes and looked around her. "That's weird, I don't see anyone," Then she sensed it, the very person she did not want to see at the moment, but unknowing to her she walked towards him. "Inuyasha?" she said and bent down beside him. He was sitting along side the river. "Kagome? You're here, I thought you were with that other guy," Inuyasha spat out, and turned to face her, string deep into her brown eyes. (AN- I have to find out what her real eye color is, sorry if I'm wrong) "Well, yeah, I'm not even sure this is a real place, but I'm still mad at you Inuyasha!" she yelled out of her system. Once again, he too disappeared, and she cried out to the darkness, "Wait Inuyasha! Come back!" This time she found herself facing the door to which she came in. "Might as well," she said aloud. She walked back to the circular room and sat down. 'What was that place?' she asked herself. 'O well,' At that moment Heokin arrived carrying a pack that looked like it was full. "I'm back," he greeted. "Hi," she said, "Is that everything?" "Yes," Heokin replied. "You're sure it will only get rid of that one memory?" she interrogated. "Of course, I've used it myself many times," Kagome stared long and hard at the smile that Heokin was wearing, "Like for what?" "Well, I don't remember," he laughed, and spread all of his findings on a table, "Come on now, all we have to do is mix all of these together."

Once they were done mixing, Heokin led Kagome over to the chair he had asked her to sit in before. "Alright, now this may cause you to see many memories from your past but don't worry, that's supposed to happen, o-k?" "O-k," she replied, and sat down. Heokin passed the bowl to Kagome, "Keep your eyes closed when you drink it," "How come?" Kagome asked. "Well, I don't know myself, it's just what I was taught," he replied. Kagome looked down at the potion and raised it too her lips, she closed her eyes and smelt it, 'At least it doesn't smell that bad,' she reassured herself, refusing to open her eyes. She brought it to her lips, and felt it all go down her throat. All of a sudden, all kinds of memories were racing across the back of her eyes lids; mostly all of them had something to do with Inuyasha. There was some that stuck out though. ~`*Flashback*`~ "Sango, can I borrow Kirara?" she asked in a sweet, but calm voice. "Sure, but what are you going to do?" Sango asked. "She misses her wolf boy already," Inuyasha remarked. Kagome turned, fuming, "I'm going home stupid!" she yelled, "You're such a jerk!" ~`*End Flashback*`~

'What was that?' she asked herself, 'What was it I was just thinking?' she asked herself again, straining to remember. Then another one stuck out.

~`*Flashback*`~

Kagome was tied down to a tree be Kikyou's soul snatchers, invisible to Inuyasha. She yelled out to him hopelessly. "Now you will join me in hell!" Kikyou yelled to him. As he was about to be pulled down he saw her pinned to the tree. "Kagome...?" he spoke, and broke from Kikyou's grasp. "So you do choose this reincarnation over me," Kikyou spoke out of pure disgust.

~`*End Flashback*`~

'How about that? What was that I was just thinking about?' she asked herself again. Once again straining to remember. She could feel hot tears pouring down her face out of confusion and frustration as she strained to remember what she had been thinking, and the person that was fading from her memory. Once again, the last and more recent one stuck out.

~`*Flashback*`~

"Inuyasha! Come on!" Miroku yelled at him. Inuyasha ignored him, and stared at Kikyou's pale face. "What are you doing here?" Inuyasha asked, in a soft, yet agitated voice. Kikyou just smirked at him, as if he was supposed to know the answer. "Well?" "Dear Inuyasha, have you not forgotten our past, that is still yet to be reborn? Or have you just gone and replaced me with that reincarnation?" she asked. From this she received no answer but instead received a hug from Inuyasha.

Back in their hiding place, Kagome stood transfixed at what she was watching. Not even noticing what she was doing, she walked into the clearing. "Kagome? Come back here!" Sango hurriedly whispered. Kagome paid no attention and kept walking towards the centre of the clearing. "Kagome? What are you doing here?" Miroku asked her, but even he, received no response. She finally stopped walking when she was at least five feet away from the two. Even Inuyasha with his dog features did not hear, see, sense, or smell, the human girl behind him. Unfortunately for him, Kikyou did. Once she saw her reincarnation approach she knew what she was going to do. Hit her where it hurt the most. Her heart. She reached up to Inuyasha's face and pulled it down so she could brush her lips against his. Kagome's face still was staring, but she could not stop the burning hot tears from running down her face. She picked herself up from where she fell to the ground in despair and ran as hard as she could away.

~`*End Flashback*`~

"I can't remember, it feels like part of me is missing, I can't remember who it was... I remember Sango, Miroku, and Shippo, but there's an outline of another, who is that?' she asked herself.

"Kagome you can open your eyes now," she heard a voice calling her from her thoughts. She opened her eyes to see Heokin. "How are you feeling?" he asked her. "I'm not quite sure exactly," she responded. "Well, I have a question for you, do you know anyone with silver hair?" he asked. "You mean Sesshomaru?"

Muah hahhahahahahah!! Hurray for the long chapter!!!! Well how do you like it?? If you got any idears...lol... then feel free to review! I no it sounds like heokin/hojo is evil but he just likes kagome just like hojo does in the future time....but yeah if you see that as evil then I guess hes evil..muah hahahahahahahahahah! Please review!